Durfee High School - Durfee Record Yearbook (Fall River, MA)

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To the Class of 1941: For many years your parents and teachers have been trying to direct you toward the paths that lead to successful careers. Now that you are about to leave school you are keenly interested in the journey that lies ahead. In these critical days when Pres- ervation oi democracies — Conscription of youth”— National defense — Exhorbitant taxation and many similar phrases are resounding in the streets, stores, homes, and wherever people gather you are unusually perplexed about the future. College with years of training, defense jobs with high wages, and enlistment in army, navy or air corps mingle in a hazy picture before you as you try to choose your future path, Although industry and your country are in dire need of men you must seri- ously consider both the immediate and more distant future before you make your final decision. If you are prepared and had planned to go to college remember that your country always has and always will need engineers, doctors, clergymen, and many other colLege-trained people. So don’t let well intended but misplaced patriotism or good jobs lure you away from your previous plan to have some years of college preparation for your chosen life-work. The present crisis demands that you, the graduate of today, together with all adults of this country, renew your faith in the principles of democracy, that you firmly believe that your form of government (with flaw's? yes) is far superior to the totali- tarian type, and you are willing, if necessary, to sacrifice everything to defend your country against aggression. Your high school education has trained you to assume the initial responsibilities of community citizenship. Your own character, personality, degree of effort, mental alertness, line of study, condition of health, and power of application will in a large measure determine your careers. I hope that motivated by high ideals of service and pride in American citizen- ship you will make the most of your oppoftunties and abilities to attain the highest degree of success and happiness. Principal.

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Charles V. Carroll, Principal Ralph M. Small, Vice-Principal Herbert W Pick ip, Vice Principal Allard, Louis A. Harrington, Frederick J. O'Neil, Anne L. Allen, Ralph C Harrington, John J. O'Neil, Isabelle E. Almy, Theodore Harty, Margaret Orcutt, Leslie W. Ashley, Myron T Hathaway, Joseph R. Powers, Margaret H. Bent, Eugenie W. Hey wood, Ruth A. Pratt, F, Antoinette Brightman, Ernest L. Hoar, George C Pritchard, Florence G. Campbell, Emily B, Hogan, Katherine L, Ramsay, Maybe lie E. Carroll, Joseph O. Jouett, Blanche I. Ryan, Mary E, Carroll, Mildred V. Judge, Mary E. Salmond, Malcolm G, Carvalho, John A, Kaylor, William F. Seagrave, Sylvia W. Chase, Winifred F. Keefe, Margaret F. Serpa, Antonio A. Cleare, William M. Keeley, Ambrose F. Shah dan, Peter Cole, Lillian F. Kernan, Marion E, Shalloo, Marie V. Conlin, James F. Kiley, John E. Shea, Henry J, Connors, Mary B, Lane, Frank D. Smith, Charles D. Cook, Berton E. Langford, Alice G, Smolensky, Hilda T. Corcoran, Mary F. Laporte, Louise C Sullivan, Anna L. Crispo, Angeline B, Lawlor, Joseph J, Sullivan, Catherine R. Crowley, John T. Lee, Mary Sullivan, Daniel J, Dagata, Frederick A. Leonard, Elizabeth L. Sullivan, Dorothy C Dailey, Margaret G Lomax, Katherine F. Sullivan, Helena V. Davis, E. Christine Lord, John G- E, Thompson, Marian R. Delahanty, Edna U. Lowney, Margaret F. Torphy, Marion L. Dolan, Mary A. Lynch, Harry P. Townsend Ella L. (deceased) Donnelly, John V. Macdonald, Margaret E, Towmsend, John M. Doran, Thomas F, Maleady, Helen Urban, Louis |. Dow, Ruth N. Maronpot, Raymond P. Vosburgh, Ruby M. Downs, Edward B. Martin, Grace L. Walsh, Anna F. Dulfy, Andrew’ L. Matte, Charles E. Wellington, Barbara Earle, Charles C. McCarty, Anna G. Whalon, Margaret J. Fletcher, Ralph J. McHiile, Rose E. Williston, Amasa F. Forster, Gladys G. Mello, Victor E. Withrow, Helena H. Foulkes, Carrie T. Miles, E. Estelle Wightman, Lillian, Matron Frost, Virginia Mitdiie, George A, Burns, Florence M., Clerk Gottwald, Frederick J. Mooney, Mar)' K. Butler, Lauretta L., Clerk Graham, Almira R, Nawrocki, Stephen Coughlin, Anna T , Clerk Grandfield, Mary C. T. Newkirk, Ruth W. Lenehan, Kathryn A., Clerk Harlow , Mabel Nobrega, Caesar

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Irene A. Nizoloski Secretary